SAT 101
The SAT section does not have:
A) A reading section
B) A vocab section
C) A writing section
D) A math section
What is a vocab section?
True/False:
The SAT test requires you to memorize facts about reading.
Refining the content of a passage to achieve the writer’s purpose
What is development?
Taking the SAT essay is __________.
What is optional?
The website you use to prep for the SAT
Hint: Permission Slip
What is Khan Academy?
How can you best prepare for the SAT?
What is:
studying
using khan academy
taking this class
asking questions
focus on revision of text for topic development; organization, logic, and cohesion; and rhetorically effective use of language.
What is Standard English Conventions questions
Adding, revising, retaining, or deleting material on the basis of relevance to the purpose (e.g., deleting an irrelevant sentence)
What is Proposition?
All colleges and post-secondary institutions _________ require the essay.
What is do not?
What is SAT Study Guide?
The highest score I can get on the SAT is...
What is 1600?
focus on editing text following the conventions of standard written English sentence structure, usage, and punctuation.
What is expression of ideas?
The SAT Writing sections wants you to ________ texts.
Hint: you are acting as a editor to the text. What does it want you to do?
What is revise?
True or false:
The Essay includes only two prompts, or questions. You’ll produce two essays in response to that prompt.
What is False?
To study for the SAT, I should take ______ tests.
What is practice (tests)?
A back-up calculator, extra batteries, a snack/drink
True or false:
Complex tests often: include uncommon words, complex sentence structure, large amounts of info quickly, discuss abstract ideas, and describe subtle or complicated relationships among concepts.
What is true?
questions ask you to improve precision and eliminate wordiness, consider style and tone, and combine sentences to improve flow and to achieve particular rhetorical effects (such as emphasizing one point over another).
What is effective language use?
The essay scores three things:
What is:
Reading: How well you demonstrated your understanding of the passage
Analysis: How well you analyzed the passage and carried out the task of explaining how the author builds the argument to persuade an audience
Writing: How skillfully you crafted your response
What is ask a question?
When surveyed, more than ____ percent of students say they want the option to submit test scores to colleges and universities.
What is 80?
The reading section has the following texts:
What is:
- 1 passage from a classic or contemporary work of U.S. or world literature.
• 1 passage or a pair of passages from either a U.S. founding document (such as an essay by James Madison) or a text in the Great Global Conversation
• 1 passage on a social science topic from a field such as economics, psychology, or sociology.
• 2 science passages (or 1 passage and 1 passage
pair) that examine foundational concepts or recent
developments in Earth science, biology, chemistry,
or physics.
• 2 passages accompanied by 1 or more informational graphics.
questions focus on logical sequence and placement of information and ideas as well as effective introductions, conclusions, and transitions.
What is organization?
are rhetorical techniques that an author might bring to bear in order to enhance the power of an argument.
What is Stylistic and persuasive elements?
True or false:
I should wait till the month before to start practicing for the SAT.
What is false